David Jasper is Professor in Theology at Glasgow University,
Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology at
Glasgow, and general editor of Literature and Theology and
International Journal of Theory, Criticism and Culture. He has
published widely in the fields of theology and literature.

Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor of English
Literature at Glasgow University. Co-editor of the World's
Classics Bible, his books include Reading the Text: Biblical
Criticism and Literature (1991), Words and 'The Word':
Language, poetics and biblical interpretation (1986),
Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the
Bible (1996). He is a member of the editorial board of
Literature and Theology.

* Provides an accessible introduction to the study of the bible's
importance for Western literature.
* Offers students the opportunity to study the intertextual
relations between literature and the bible.
* Contains a section of additional suggested reading and a full
bibliography.

"The three introductory essays they provide are approachable,
authoritative and full of meat. The selections from scripture are
annotated freshly and stirringly; the commentaries which introduce
the literary extracts are models of compression, expanding at a
later stage in the mind of the reader, as good teaching should"
Julian Thompson, Tutor in English, RPC Oxford
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"Each biblical passage is carefully introduced, and there is a
bibliography for each section. An excellent book!" International
Review of Biblical Studies

"A welcome addition to our resources at a time when there is an
increasing emphasis on literary reading and narrative theology."
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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